A Six-Word Memoir® is the story of your life—some part of it or all of it—told in exactly
six words.

In classrooms and boardrooms,
churches and synagogues, veteran's groups
and across the dinner table, Six-Word Memoirs
have become a powerful tool to catalyze
conversation, spark imagination or simply
break the ice.

Here on Six Words,
we offer a simple platform to share the short,
sharp story of your life, as well as provide daily
prompts to share your six-word takes on the topics of
our times.

More than half a million short stories have
been shared here.
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The 'be' verb (more properly, copula) has two forms, positive and negative, artificially separating everything into binary divisions and prescribing some unchanging 'essence' to every 'thing' (noun, for example). People argue and even go to war over what some 'thing' (or situation) 'is' or 'isn't'--essentially what we label that as. Various semanticists have created other systems that include the imperative and ubiquitous gray zone, the world of maybes and overlapping linguistic 'truths'. A favorite writer of mine (Bob Wilson) preferred the label 'maybe logic'.
Basically, whenever something 'is' multiple, seemingly contradictory but nonetheless true 'things' (labels), then the binary, Aristotelean division simply doesn't work. Always look for a better model (as physicists and other scientists do) to include more of the data and remove more of the bias. At very least, be aware of the semantic trappings and pitfalls of your own language.